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Begiristain: 'Focused' City excited by draw

Fri 15 Mar 2019, 11:30 AM

QUARTER MASTERS: Pep Guardiola and Maurico Pochettino's sides will meet in the Champions League quarter-finals

Director of Football Txiki Begiristain says Manchester City will go into next month's Champions League quarter-final with Tottenham feeling ‘confident’ but also wary of the threat posed by our Premier League opponents.

Today’s draw pitted the Blues against Mauricio Pochettino’s side with City due to play the first leg away on Tuesday, April 9 – potentially at Tottenham’s new stadium – before the Etihad plays host for the deciding leg the following week on Wednesday, April 17.

“We are confident. We are doing well, we are having a good season and we are in a good place now in the sense of the football that we are playing,” said the City Director of Football.

“So, we are confident, but we know Tottenham will create problems.

“I am also very happy that we will get to play in the new stadium (Tottenham’s new ground).

“We played last season (in the quarter-finals) against Liverpool and did not go through. I hope this time we have better luck!”